Have you ever had a kitchen sink salad? This line up includes chickpeas, cherry tomatoes, bread chunks, feta, lemon zest, basil and celery leaves (my new favorite ingredient by the way). It’s dressed with lemon juice and lots of good olive oil. So basically it’s a big bread salad with lots of stuff in it. Or better yet, a chickpea…
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My little ones are master berry pickers. We spent the day at Patti’s Berries & Bunches and they somehow managed to clean the place out. I have hundreds of juicy blackberries to use up. I’ve also been trying to master a flaky, all-butter pie crust so I decided to marry the two in a blackberry nectarine tart. I’ve never been good…
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Everyone knows someone who makes the best (insert recipe here…) For me, my Grandpa makes the best tomato salad. His ingredients are simple- juicy sun-ripened tomatoes, shaved onions & celery, oregano, olive oil and salt. I thought about updating his tomato salad (because that’s what us young people do) and quickly realized what a horrible idea that was. You don’t mess…
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We have officially entered avocado season! I just found them on sale for as little as 79¢ each. I repeat, 79¢ each! Usually, the avocado is quite pricey where I’m from. So at 79¢, I stock up like a mad woman and make everyone eat guacamole until they’re blue in the face (no wait, that would be green in the face…)…
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This is the best blueberry cornmeal muffin recipe: perfectly moist, not-too-sweet and loaded with blueberries. The crumb has a soft texture, and the cornmeal adds a lovely sweet flavor. They’re freezer friendly, too! For years, I’d been searching for the best blueberry muffin recipe. I tried blueberry muffins with almond flour, wheat flour, with butter, without butter, olive oil etc….
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